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Beal, Jennifer S.; Bowman, Sarah – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Researchers have focused on how deaf signing children acquire and use American Sign Language (ASL). One sub-skill of ASL proficiency is ASL phonology. This includes the ability to isolate and manipulate parameters within signs (i.e., handshape, location, and movement). Expressively, signed language phonological fluency tasks have investigated…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Phonology, Language Skills
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Beal, Jennifer S.; Trussell, Jessica Williams; Walton, Dawn – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
We investigated the receptive American Sign Language (ASL) skills of four separate groups using the 42-item ASL-Receptive Skills Test: Deaf high school-aged students who attended a residential school; deaf incoming college students who preferred signed language; deaf incoming college students who preferred spoken language; and typically hearing…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Receptive Language, Deafness, High School Students
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Beal, Jennifer S.; Scott, Jessica A.; Spell, Kelly – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
The present study used an observational learning framework to investigate changes in non-native signing deaf children's narrative renditions before (Time 1) and after (Time 2) a single viewing of a signing adult's rendition of the same story. The deaf adult model rendered the picture book "Goodnight Gorilla" in American Sign Language…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, American Sign Language, Picture Books